The Aporia · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

Andrew Wu

23 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 When three-year-old gelding Doubt Time lines up behind the gates for Saturday’s Coolmore Stud Stakes, stablehand Montanna Gawith-Hutson is confident the horse will be relaxed and ready to race.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 Only those in the camp can honestly answer if the visitors would have settled for a Proteas total of 329 if offered before the day, but such a scoreline would have been gleefully accepted when openers Aiden Markram and Marques Ackerman destroyed the new ball.

2026-10-28 · assertive framing · The four balls that turned the Test, and saved captain Pat Cummins

🔮 As trainer Andrea Leek, who operates stables in Nar Nar Goon North, celebrated becoming the first woman in 32 years to win Australia’s weight-for-age championship with West Australian star Cosmic Crusader, the dual Brownlow winner and his Carlton crew were left to wonder what might have been.

2026-10-24 · assertive framing · No October joy for Carlton stars on Cox Plate’s sojourn to Flemington

🔮 Eddie McGuire will not feature in Nine’s suite of football magazine shows in 2027, as the network has replaced its Tuesday night edition of Footy Classified.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Eddie McGuire no longer hosting a footy show on Nine

🔮 For over a decade, Patrick Cripps could not have done more to lift his Carlton mates to glory in September.

2026-10-22 · assertive framing · How a former Carlton coach used Patrick Cripps to crack an exclusive racing circle

🔮 Stewards were able to quickly calm worried family and connections of the jockeys by releasing a statement to say both would be taken to hospital but had escaped serious injury.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Horse’s death, reigning champion’s fall overshadow finish of the Caulfield Cup

🔮 Why this seven-year-old, $34 shot might just be poised to spring an almighty Everest upset By

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Caulfield Cup and The Everest LIVE: Big day of racing lined up for Melbourne and Sydney

🔮 Bringing in readymade talent is worth far more than picks to the Hawks, given where they are – and even then, they didn’t give much up – so this was a ragingly successful fortnight. Western Bulldogs In: Jordon Butts (Ade/free agency), Zak Butters (PA/free agency), Finn Maginness (Haw/trade), Hudson O’Keeffe (Carl/trade), picks 42, 53, 83, 89, R2 2027 (PA), R3 2027 (Mel), R4 2027 (PA), R2 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (PA), R3 2028 (GC), R4 2028 (Melb) Out: Picks 14 and 33, R3 2027 (GC), R1 2028 (WB) Draft picks: 42, 53, 55, 83, 89, 91, 109 Trade rating: 9.5/10 The Bulldogs could hardly be happier.

2026-10-14 · assertive framing · Contending, rebuilding or stuck in limbo: What AFL trade period says about your team’s flag hopes

🔮 When Will Hayward and Ollie Florent were forced out last year as part of the trade to land Charlie Curnow from Carlton, both were thanked by Cameron in the club’s public statement.

2026-10-13 · assertive framing · Swans frosty as Blakey departs for North Melbourne with an apology

🔮 Piper said CV had attracted 35 more fans than they would have otherwise, “but I hope they’re self-employed and not being paid by Victorian employers to be there”.

2026-10-08 · assertive framing · The uni students’ project that has business groups riled – and cricket happy

Also by Andrew Wu

The four balls that turned the Test, and saved captain Pat Cummins

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

No October joy for Carlton stars on Cox Plate’s sojourn to Flemington

2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Eddie McGuire no longer hosting a footy show on Nine

2026-10-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

How a former Carlton coach used Patrick Cripps to crack an exclusive racing circle

2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

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Roy Ward

29 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 I’m Roy Ward and I’ll be taking you through all the major moments as Australia tries to bat out the day and avoid a loss while South Africa needs six more wickets and they will either win the match or need a short run chase.

2026-10-22 · assertive framing · Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Travis Head bats on as Aussies attempt to avoid loss on day five

🔮 The injury is expected to rule the 30-year-old out for the entire season, ending what former teammate and NBA All-Star Dwight Howard had forecast as the “greatest comeback story in NBA history” – just as ESPN was preparing to air a documentary on his return to basketball.

2026-10-18 · assertive framing · Ben Simmons was on the verge of an NBA comeback after 538 days. A serious injury has derailed it

🔮 Why this seven-year-old, $34 shot might just be poised to spring an almighty Everest upset By

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Caulfield Cup and The Everest LIVE: Big day of racing lined up for Melbourne and Sydney

🔮 The Brisbane Lions remain resolute they want Essendon’s pick 17 for Coleman, but the Bombers have offered their No.27 and are unwilling to hand over either 17 or pick 21.

2026-10-13 · mixed framing · AFL trade deadline day LIVE: Bombers push to land premiership Lion

🔮 Australia’s chances of a competitive first innings score will rest on the success of Matt Renshaw, according to commentator Kerry O’Keeffe.

2026-10-10 · assertive framing · Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Renshaw, Cummins resume batting on day two in Durban

🔮 Paul needs to pass a fitness test on his injured ankle before he can make his NBL debut with the Cairns Taipans, which could come in their clash with Melbourne United at John Cain Arena on Saturday night.

2026-10-02 · assertive framing · Simmons, Giddey, Daniels, Paul? The next Aussie gun on the path to hoops stardom

🔮 It’s 14 degrees currently (feels more like 10 degrees), and the forecast suggests it will keep raining for the next few hours.

2026-09-26 · assertive framing · AFL grand final LIVE: Brisbane Lions, Fremantle fans count down to the decider at a wet MCG

🔮 Scans would later show he had a grade two strain, and should have been on the sidelines for a month.

2026-09-24 · assertive framing · ‘Who’s this bloke with no teeth?’ The raw talent who snubbed the NBA to become footy’s unicorn

🔮 Hore has since grown into one of the AFLW’s most-respected captains and leading players, and on Friday night she will run out for her 100th game – becoming the first Demon to do so.

2026-09-24 · assertive framing · AFLW round seven: Kate Hore brings up 100th game as Dees take on angry North Melbourne; IKON Park hosts double-header

Also by Roy Ward

Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Inglis resumes with century in sight as Aussies look to build lead on day three

2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Travis Head, Matt Renshaw head to the crease as Aussies chase 329 on day two

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

AFLW round 11 LIVE: Collingwood Magpies take the field after losing skipper Ruby Schleicher

2026-10-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia vs South Africa LIVE: Travis Head bats on as Aussies attempt to avoid loss on day five

2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

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Danny Russell

35 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 On Tuesday, he will ride the same horse in the Melbourne Cup.

2026-11-02 · assertive framing · He’d just ridden his first group 1 race. Then came the death threats

🔮 “I’ve been involved in horses in one form or another for 50 years, and this is the best horse I’ve ever been involved in, by a considerable margin,” retired school teacher Greg May told this masthead.

2026-11-01 · assertive framing · This horse is barred from running in Cup week after failing a drug test – that its trainer requested

🔮 The Joseph O’Brien stayer has set European racing alight in the past six months by adopting daring catch-me-if-you can tactics and was expected to turn Tuesday’s 3200m race at Flemington into a gruelling test of stamina that would suit the Europeans.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Another shock scratching three days out from Melbourne Cup

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 A 5am start will be trialled after the spring carnival.

2026-10-28 · assertive framing · ‘Can’t have a life’: Kanga joins welfare push for later starting times in racing

🔮 The winner of one, he says, will become a household name.

2026-10-27 · assertive framing · One is the race that stops a nation. The other will make you an instant $30 million

🔮 This guide will be updated when the field is set with comments from Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne assessing each runner’s chances.

2026-10-27 · assertive framing · First look at the Melbourne Cup form - we rate the top 24 horses

2026-10-24 · assertive framing · No October joy for Carlton stars on Cox Plate’s sojourn to Flemington

🔮 One of the country’s finest trainers will set foot on the vast green lawns at Flemington on Saturday with a serious Cox Plate chance and mixed emotions.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Track tensions, the Valley roar, and Daryl Braithwaite’s Horses: The mixed emotions behind Cox Plate’s Flemington move

🔮 That would take Waller’s total victories in the race to seven and McDonald to five.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Like bacon and eggs, this perfect pairing is hard to go past in the Cox Plate

Also by Danny Russell

He’d just ridden his first group 1 race. Then came the death threats

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

This horse is barred from running in Cup week after failing a drug test – that its trainer requested

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Another shock scratching three days out from Melbourne Cup

2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Can’t have a life’: Kanga joins welfare push for later starting times in racing

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Nothing else under this byline is closely related to this article, so these are simply their most recent.

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Courtney Thompson

22 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 After the final school bell rang, groups of teenagers would make the weekly pilgrimage to their local shopping centre and walk around for hours, gossiping as they browsed through shops that housed treasures they couldn’t yet afford. “They became a part of everyday life,” says Sophie Holt, Oroton creative director, of the place shopping centres have within the broader context of Australian fashion history. “For many people, it was the main place where they first saw fashion.

2026-11-01 · assertive framing · Malls were declared dead. Now teenagers are leading their quiet revival

🔮 The Melbourne Cup might have the race day glory, and Oaks Day may technically have the style crown thanks to hosting the Fashions on the Field final.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Supermodel glamour and chic tailoring: The Derby Day fashion winners

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 When she finds an outfit she wants to wear, it gives her an image of what it would look like on her.

2026-10-20 · assertive framing · The new tech shopping for you while you sleep

🔮 Model Montana Cox could wear a hessian sack and people would still probably reverse Google image search it to find out where they could get one just like it – such is the power when you’re as stunning as Cox.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Stylish Sydney throws down the gauntlet: Everest fashion winners

🔮 The Caulfield Cup is celebrating a momentous 150 years in 2026, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the crowds.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · A lesson in elegance: The Caulfield Cup fashion winners

🔮 Why this seven-year-old, $34 shot might just be poised to spring an almighty Everest upset By

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Caulfield Cup and The Everest LIVE: Big day of racing lined up for Melbourne and Sydney

🔮 It’s the kind of home most people would look at and think, “Yes, I’d live here”.

2026-10-13 · assertive framing · Apple’s latest launch will help you stay off your phone at home

🔮 “By looking at both partners’ perspectives, we were able to examine whether two people in the same relationship may experience and interpret the division of household responsibilities differently, and whether these differences matter for relationship quality,” Coundouris says.

2026-10-13 · assertive framing · Is the ‘tri-load’ to blame for your relationship stress? A new study has some answers

🔮 “Aurelia will always drop me off at the train in the morning, and we’ll have a kiss goodbye, and then she’ll pick me up with our dog, and we have a kiss hello,” Natt, 35, says.

2026-10-09 · assertive framing · Why six seconds every day is all it takes to transform your relationship

Also by Courtney Thompson

The key to a winning fashion formula for Melbourne Cup

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Malls were declared dead. Now teenagers are leading their quiet revival

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Supermodel glamour and chic tailoring: The Derby Day fashion winners

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald

The new tech shopping for you while you sleep

2026-10-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald

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Fiona Byrne

18 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 After finals, she will jet off to Vietnam for some downtime before returning for the men’s 2027 season.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · The camera-shy, the dance movers and footy’s elite: Inside the Birdcage on Derby Day

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 VRC chair Neil Wilson, who will step down after this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival, and his wife Stephanie, Vin Cox, the chair elect to follow Wilson into the top job at the VRC, and his wife Nicole, and VRC chief executive Kylie Rogers were in the unfamiliar position of being at a race meeting at Flemington but not on duty.

2026-10-24 · assertive framing · Wide awake premier braves the endurance test for social animals

🔮 Vella, who has been on maternity leave since the birth of her daughter, Eve, in March, was expected to stay on with the ABC in 2027 and return to the co-hosting chair alongside Murphy, a former Western Bulldogs player.

2026-10-22 · assertive framing · Sharnelle Vella quits ABC breakfast as radio exodus continues

🔮 After almost a decade as a radio team, Gold Logie winner Carrie Bickmore and comedian Tommy Little have called time on their Carrie & Tommy national drive show and will exit the Hit Network at the end of the year.

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · ‘Not how I wanted it to end’: Carrie Bickmore, Tommy Little end Hit Network radio show

🔮 “If it turns out that it’s a criminal matter, there was intent, etc, etc, charges will follow subsequently.

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · Pencil case to blame for premier’s petrol station blunder

🔮 Victoria Racing Club chair Neil Wilson, who recently announced he would step down after this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival, and wife Stephanie were moving between the committee room and the mounting yard, where they were supporting friends who had runners in the big races.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Powerbrokers, influencers, safari suits descend on Caulfield Cup

🔮 Why this seven-year-old, $34 shot might just be poised to spring an almighty Everest upset By

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Caulfield Cup and The Everest LIVE: Big day of racing lined up for Melbourne and Sydney

🔮 “Funnily enough, in regard to that road, it is the residents who do not want it resealed, because they do not like traffic going down it, so they are quite happy to have it full of potholes, might I add.”

2026-10-12 · assertive framing · Pothole MP steps down just weeks before the election

🔮 “When you’ve gone from nothing … to something like that, there’s a bit of imposter syndrome, there’s a fear that one day something could happen, the bubble could burst and the dream could be over,” he told a NZ podcast in 2024.

2026-10-09 · assertive framing · ‘Imagine if I stuffed this up’: Sam Wood had the world, now it’s crashing down around him

Also by Fiona Byrne

The camera-shy, the dance movers and footy’s elite: Inside the Birdcage on Derby Day

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Wide awake premier braves the endurance test for social animals

2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

Sharnelle Vella quits ABC breakfast as radio exodus continues

2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Not how I wanted it to end’: Carrie Bickmore, Tommy Little end Hit Network radio show

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

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Shelby Brooks

7 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 “I should have brought that jacket,” one woman could be heard screaming to her friend amid the downpour.

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Thinking pink in a sea of black and white

2026-10-31 · assertive framing · Derby Day LIVE: Punters descend on Flemington for big day of racing; Cormier, Stormy Marco favoured in 4.20pm main race

🔮 In sentencing, the magistrate noted that the collection included many iconic and endangered species, and that the volume of offending was enormous. “It is bewildering that a man of your intelligence and knowledge and love of wildlife would arrogantly flout the law so comprehensively,” the magistrate said.

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · Antiques dealer fined after raid uncovers 700 dead native animals, including 78 stuffed emus

🔮 He will be held overnight to appear at Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

2026-10-20 · assertive framing · Charges laid against man accused of attacking Federal MP Helen Haines

🔮 Yap, an intrepid adventurer, embarked on a solo hike through the remote Huayhuash mountain range on September 14, telling friends and family he would be off the grid for 10 days to complete the high-altitude trek.

2026-10-11 · assertive framing · Missing Melbourne hiker Jordan Yap found dead in Peru

🔮 The driver then did a U-turn before speeding back along Flinders Street. Barista Kirk Pearson was working at his Flinders Street cafe when he heard a car “screaming from Elizabeth Street”. As the car sped away from police, Pearson said, bystanders scrambled to help the injured woman off the road so she wouldn’t be hit again.

2026-10-11 · assertive framing · Teen arrested after woman hit by car outside Flinders Street Station near marathon route

Also by Shelby Brooks